C_HANADEV_18 Exam Results

 SAP HANA, express edition is a streamlined version of SAP HANA that can run on laptops and other resource-constrained hosts, such as a cloud-hosted virtual machine. SAP HANA, express edition is free to use for in-memory databases up to 32 GB of RAM. SAP HANA, express edition supports the following services:

• Text analytics: This service allows you to analyze unstructured text data, such as documents, emails, tweets, and blogs, using natural language processing techniques. You can use text analytics to extract entities, facts, sentiments, and keywords from text data, and to perform linguistic analysis, such as tokenization, lemmatization, and part-of-speech tagging.
• Multi-core and parallelization: This service allows you to leverage the multi-core architecture and parallel processing capabilities of SAP HANA to optimize the performance of data-intensive operations, such as queries, calculations, and transformations. You can use multi-core and parallelization to distribute the workload across multiple CPU cores and threads, and to execute tasks in parallel or in batches.
• Columnar OLTP and OLAP: This service allows you to store and process data in a columnar format, which enables faster data compression, aggregation, and analysis. You can use columnar OLTP and OLAP to support both transactional and analytical workloads on the same data set, without requiring data duplication or pre-aggregation.

The other options are not correct because:

• A. Dynamic tiering: This service allows you to extend the SAP HANA in-memory database with disk-based tables that can store large volumes of warm or cold data. You can use dynamic tiering to reduce the memory footprint and cost of SAP HANA, while still maintaining query access to the disk-based data. However, dynamic tiering is not supported by SAP HANA, express edition, as it requires additional hardware and software components.
• D. System replication: This service allows you to create and maintain one or more secondary SAP HANA systems that are identical copies of a primary SAP HANA system. You can use system replication to ensure high availability and disaster recovery of SAP HANA, as the secondary systems can take over the role of the primary system in case of a failure. However, system replication is not supported by SAP HANA, express edition, as it requires additional licenses and configuration.

References:

• SAP HANA, express edition, Overview
• SAP HANA, express edition, Features
• SAP HANA, express edition, FAQ

 To consume a Node.js service in an SAPUI5 application, you need to define the variable for the exposed service in the requires section of the HTML5 module in the mta.xml file. This way, you can specify the dependency of the SAPUI5 application on the Node.js service and bind them together. The requires section allows you to reference a resource or a module that provides a service or a capability that your module needs. You can also define additional properties and parameters for the required element, such as the name of the variable that holds the service URL. References: The MTA Development Descriptor, The MTA Deployment Descriptor, Developing Multi-Target Applications

According to the SAP HANA Developer Guide, XSODATA supports the following HTTP commands to define the operations on the resources:

• DGET: Retrieves a single entity or a collection of entities from the data source.
• DPUT: Updates an existing entity in the data source.
• POST: Creates a new entity in the data source.
• DELETE: Deletes an existing entity from the data source.

The READ and INSERT commands are not valid HTTP commands for XSODATA. They are keywords that can be used in the service definition file (.xsodata) to specify the access mode for each entity set. References: SAP HANA Developer Guide, Chapter 6, Section 6.4.2, page 2111

OData is a protocol for exposing and consuming data over the web using RESTful APIs. OData supports various capacities, such as query options, operations, and annotations, to enable flexible and powerful data access and manipulation. SAP HANA extended application services, advanced model (XSA) is a framework for developing and deploying cloud-native applications on SAP HANA. XSA supports OData v4 as one of the service types that can be defined and exposed by the SAP Cloud Application Programming Model (CAP). XSA supports the following OData capacities in CAP:

• Aggregation: This capacity allows you to perform aggregation functions, such as sum, count, min, max, and average, on the data returned by an OData service. You can use the $apply query option to specify the aggregation expressions and groupings. XSA supports the OData Aggregation Extension for applying aggregations on entity sets and collections.
• Join: This capacity allows you to perform join operations on the data returned by an OData service. You can use the $expand query option to include related entities or properties in the response. XSA supports the OData Association and Navigation concepts for defining and accessing the relationships between entities.
• Association: This capacity allows you to define and use associations between entities in an OData service. Associations are semantic links that describe the cardinality and referential constraints of the relationships. You can use the OData Association and Referential Constraint annotations to specify the association details in the service definition or the metadata document.

The other options are not correct because:

• A. Union: This capacity is not supported by OData or XSA. Union is a set operation that combines the results of two or more queries into a single result set. OData does not provide a query option or an extension for performing union operations on the data returned by an OData service.
• D. Projection: This capacity is supported by OData, but not by XSA. Projection is a query option that allows you to select a subset of properties or entities from an OData service. You can use the $select query option to specify the properties or entities you want to include in the response. However, XSA does not support the $select query option in CAP, as it relies on the projection capabilities of the underlying data source, such as SAP HANA or PostgreSQL.

References:

• SAP Cloud Application Programming Model, OData v4 Support
• SAP Cloud Application Programming Model, Annotations
• OData Version 4.0 Part 1: Protocol
• OData Version 4.0 Part 2: URL Conventions
• OData Aggregation Extension for Data Services Version 4.0